Flip digit clocks are a prized piece of consumer electrical ephemera, providing as they do a digital display without significant electronics. Making your own flip digit display involves some drudgery ...

If you are live streaming on YouTube, Twitch, etc., you can freely customize the layout of the streaming screen by using the open source live streaming tool OBS. ' Flip Clock ' is a free plug-in for ...

Here’s a great app for your iPhone that will turn it into a cool retro clock, the Flip Clock. Now you can have your iPhone on your desk displaying this cool Flip Clock all the time as it has a ...

Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an unusual display type. But sometimes, an old clock is just perfect as it is, and only needs a bit of ...

Remigio Solari, whose family had been making clocks in Northern Italy since 1725, had one of the most profound yet lesser-known effects on travel and timekeeping when he came up with the idea for the ...

Before LCDs and LEDs became cheap enough to add to nearly any device, mechanical flap displays were used in large-scale signage and bedside alarm clocks for improved legibility. Shinsaku Hiura has ...

I’ve been through a lot of time-telling devices in my years. My dad made sure I could read an analog watch as soon as I could put one on my wrist, and I think I’ll always have some sort of sentimental ...